Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 32
[36] The parents wanted to secure wives for them, and sent the eldest son out to seek a bride.
Who acts: parents, 36 · What happens: want, secure, send, seek · To what, where: 36, wives, eldest son, bride
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, 36), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
| 2 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 wanted | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 parents | det |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 secure | mark |
| 8 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 secure | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 secure | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wanted | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 16 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 sent | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bride | det |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the parents | 36 | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | secure not said to happen | to-infinitive | 36 not said here | wives | for parents = parent | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition wife=Theme for they=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | send | past | the parents not said here | the eldest son | out property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the parents not said here | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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